Then the god gave a fearful roar, fell on the ground, writhed and foamed and vanished into the mountain.
The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees.
But this time they had in their midst a huge black cat who seemed to be their king, and whom the young man guessed to be the Spirit of the Mountain.
The prince at once determined to seek the old woman on the top of the mountain, and lost no time in setting out.
At midnight, when the full moon appeared above the top of the mountain, the cats again filled the chapel and shrieked and yelled and danced as before.
But strike the water with the halter and say, "Come here, O mare of the mountain witch!
About noon a man was to be spied, straggling up the open side of the mountain in the sun, and looking round him as he came, from under his hand.
The burn was full of trout; the wood of cushat-doves; on the open side of the mountain beyond, whaups would be always whistling, and cuckoos were plentiful.
Now we ran among the birches; now stooping behind low humps upon the mountain-side; now crawling on all fours among the heather.
They reigned over the north; but they confessed the vanity of conquest, by their faithful attachment to the mountain of their fathers.
Would it not be preferable to sustain at Constantinople a life of poverty and servitude, rather than to reign the undoubted monarch of the mountain of Papua?
The mountain is endowed with a sensitive action in its roots or nerves; and their vibration, at the command of God, is the cause of earthquakes.
A level was formed by raising part of a deep valley to the height of the mountain.
So they went up the mountain to Atlas their uncle, and Perseus went up with them.
This my father gave me, and forged it himself in the roots of the mountain; and with it I pound all proud flies till they give out their fatness and their sweetness.
And it happened on a day that Jason stood on the mountain, and looked north and south and east and west; and Cheiron stood by him and watched him, for he knew that the time was come.
But, sir, I would rather be a weaver with five shillings a week in Llangollen, than a shepherd with fifteen on the mountain.
He told me that when a boy he kept sheep on the mountain.
I took the one to the left, which seemingly led to the top of the mountain, and presently came to a cottage from which a dog rushed barking towards me; an old woman, however, coming to the door called him back.
As we went along I stopped to gaze at a singular-looking hill forming part of the mountain range on the east.
The original meaning of carn is a heap of stones, and carn-lleidyr means properly a thief without house or home, and with no place on which to rest his head, save the carn or heap of stones on the bleak top of the mountain.
Day and night the same fantastic and attenuated clouds fled across the heavens, the same dusky cap of rain and vapour fell and rose on the mountain.
Depths of foliage and the bulk of the mountain kept it in a grateful shadow.
And still, high in front, arose the precipitous barrier of the mountain, greened over where it seemed that scarce a harebell could find root, barred with the zigzags of a human road where it seemed that not a goat could scramble.
Heavy and dark clouds impended on the summits; the rain roared and ceased; the scuppers of the mountain gushed; and the next day we would see the sides of the amphitheatre bearded with white falls.
The monks lived in separate huts, kalbbia, forming a religious hamlet on the mountain side.
The mountain sparrow (Fasser montana) is abundant in Java and Singapore in a uniform equatorial climate, and also inhabits Britain and a considerable portion of northern Europe.
The two principal temples are situated at Deulwara, about the middle of the mountain, and five miles south-west of Guru Sikra, the highest summit.
Lower Palaeozoic strata lap up on to the crystalline rocks on all sides ofthe mountain group.
Yet hardly any other distinct class of men, irrespective of number or permanence, has called forth so many excellent books as the Mountain Men.
Vestal's "Fandango," a tale of the Mountain Men in Taos, is among the most spirited ballads America has produced.
So it befell that he returned to Hawaii by the first steamer, and as soon as it could be managed he was wedded to Kokua, and carried her up the mountain side to the Bright House.
Now the house stood on the mountain side, visible to ships.
Life may be no better; this is the mountain top; and all shelves about me toward the worse.
The wisdom of this plan was soon evident, for the Phanfasm with the owl's head turned and led the way up the mountain.
Go up the mountain, if you dare, and find out what the First and Foremost will do to you!
This gully was about a third of the way up the mountain, and it was filled to the brim with red-hot molten lava in which swam fire-serpents and poisonous salamanders.
The next day was a blaze of heat, the mountain-paths lay thick with dust, and I had no wine from sunrise to sunset.
The path to Delphi left the shore road near the Hot Springs, and went south by a rift of the mountain.
And then, seeking safety, he dropped over the crest on to the steep shoreward face of the mountain.
The only sound was that of the brook, for there was no wind, and no trees for it to make its music upon if there had been, for the cottage was high up on the mountain, on a great shoulder of stone where trees would not grow.
Each day as I go up the mountain I get a larger vision.
No matter how black and sunless today, when I have struggled on up the mountain path, I have gotten above the clouds and found the sun forever shining and God forever in His heavens.
The things that seem so important down in the smudgy, stormswept valley, seem so unimportant as we go higher up the mountain to more important things.
It closed one gate, but it opened another gate to a better pathway up the mountain.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the mountain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
